automobilist

Borrowed from French automobiliste. By surface analysis, automobile +‎ -ist.

automobilist (plural automobilists)

1. (archaic) The driver of an automobile.

   Synonym: autoist

   Hypernyms: driver, motorist, operator

   Coordinate term: truck driver

   • 1928, Amelia Earhart, 20 Hrs. 40 Min., chapter III, page 59

     For the automobilist beginner the problem comes when he first meets traffic, and a big truck, say, suddenly cuts in ahead of him.

Borrowed from French automobiliste. Equivalent to automobiel +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑu̯.toː.moː.biˈlɪst/, /ˌoː.toː.moː.biˈlɪst/

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• Hyphenation: au‧to‧mo‧bi‧list
• Rhymes: -ɪst

automobilist m (plural automobilisten, diminutive automobilistje n)

1. a motorist, an automobilist

Borrowed from French automobiliste. By surface analysis, automobil +‎ -ist.

automobilist m (plural automobiliști, feminine equivalent automobilistă)

1. motorist

• automobìlista (Bosnia, Serbia)

From automòbīl.

• IPA^(key): /automobǐlist/
• Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧mo‧bi‧list

automobìlist m anim (Cyrillic spelling аутомобѝлист)

1. driver
2. sports car driver

• “automobilist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025